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The Shrinking Youth Vote: Why 2016 May Be More Competitive Than Pundits Predict

2008 was a historic year for young voters. After a steady increase in youth turnout between the 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential elections, the 2008 election was said to have one of the highest youth voter turnout rates in the history of the United States -- thereby ending a historical trend of persistently low youth turnout with the first majority turnout by youth voters since

1964.

Say Good-Bye to McCain-Feingold...

government shutdown has been more common in recent years so there was a possibility, but there has always been a relatively quick fix to them -- pass a budget or continuing resolution. In this case, Congress passed a combination in the form of the $1.1 trillion cromnibus.

Republicans and Democrats Increase Donation Limits for Themselves

On Saturday, December 13, when people were likely more interested in the Army vs. Navy football game than what Congress was up to, the Senate passed the $1.1 trillion spending bill -- colloquially known as the

cromnibus. As a result, the government will not shutdown. Crisis adverted, right? Not exactly.

The Case for Compromise for Libertarians in Future Elections

"If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.” – Mark 3:25“Politics at its purest is philosophy in action” – Margaret Thatcher“Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.” – Thomas Jefferson

Whereas to many outside the liberty movement, including the mainstream media, politicians like Rand Paul seem quite libertarian, many Americans who actually call themselves “libertarians” seem to despise Rand Paul for not being libertarian enough in various areas, and so they call him a “neo-con” or a “shill”

Congress Approves More Sanctions on Russia with No Debate or Recorded Vote

During the so-called lame duck session of Congress, a number of significant bills have passed with little or no debate. One was over

intelligence gathering and another increases sanctions on Russia and purports to allow the president to militarily arm Ukraine.

Members of Congress Don't Believe It's Their Job To Read Bills They Pass

The $560 billion

2015 National Defense Authorization Act passed Congress recently, and the details of the bill have military families worried.

Dianne Feinstein In No Position to Grandstand over CIA Torture Report

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) raised fire and brimstone in her rebuke of the CIA on the Senate floor after the

CIA torture report summary was released to the public. As compelling as her words may have been, however, her vocal condemnation of the use of torture serves only to distract from the fact that she has no interest in actually preventing any U.S.

Was It Worth It: America's Presence in the Middle East

With the release of the

CIA torture report this week, America is once again getting nothing but bad press about our involvement in the Middle East.

But what would historians say 100 years from now, once outside of the immediate politics and partisanship of the issues. Would they think that the wars in the Middle East were worth it?

The Cromnibus: The GOP's Answer to A Bipartisan Budget

The GOP is flexing its budget muscles as party leaders in Congress try to prove they can handle the responsibility of legislating.

In light of retaking the Senate and winning the most House seats since World War II, the majority of Republican lawmakers are looking to create as close to a bipartisan path forward as possible.

How to Lose a War on Terror

Discussions of the morality of torture have a bad habit of descending into a common game-theory scenario derived from the "Trolley Problem." It goes like this: imagine that your entire family was locked in a building that was going to blow up in ten minutes. You don’t know where the bomb is, but you have the person who placed it in custody. Would you torture the person in order to save your family?